If you assume you haven’t learned anything yet, there’s no reason your playing can’t stay dynamic all your life.
JERRY GARCIAAs long as we can play, we’ll play, regardless of what it’s for, who it’s for or anything. It’s fun for us – that’s the important thing.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.
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Every silver lining has a touch of grey.
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I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
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Run faster, jump higher, reach farther, and you’ll always win! live life expecting the worst, hoping for the best, and living for the future!
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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We play at the religious services of the new age. Everybody gets high, and that’s what it’s all about really.
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We were very fortunate to have a a little time in history when LSD was still legal and were able to experiment with drugs just like we were doing with music.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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There’s a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.
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We’re like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you’ll never get anywhere!
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The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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Getting high is a lot more real than listening to a politician. You can think that getting high actually did happen – that you danced, and got sweaty, and carried on. It really did happen.
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What a long strange trip it’s been.
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